See more Kotex items: First ad (1921) -
ad 1928 (Sears and
Roebuck catalog) - Lee
Miller ads (first real person in
amenstrual hygiene ad, 1928) - Marjorie May's Twelfth
Birthday (booklet for girls, 1928,
Australian edition; there are many links here to
Kotex items) - Preparing
for Womanhood (1920s, booklet for girls;
Australian edition) - 1920s booklet in Spanish
showing disposal
method - box
from about 1969 - "Are
you in the know?" ads (Kotex) (1949)(1953)(1964)(booklet, 1956) - See
more ads on the Ads for
Teenagers main page
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Text from a 1929 ad for Kotex menstrual
napkins
The photographer Lee Miller is the
first person, and probably the most
important person, to have appeared in
an American menstrual hygiene
advertisement.
In the text
excerpts from a 1929
advertisement Miller appeared
in, below, read some typical concerns
voiced then and now, such as
concealment of the pad - meaning
concealment of the period - , very
important in America.
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